Helen Keller

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.